Apr. 30, 2001

Brothers and Sons,
Egypt’s Loyal Workers,

Throughout Egypt’s modern history and since July 1952 Revolution, Egypt has not ceased to celebrate the Labour Day in recognition of her loyal sons who have made her course of progress. They have been the pillars of awakening, soldiers of development and battalions of national action who spread reconstruction over every spot of this homeland. They also achieved for their country many huge and substantial achievements that were objects of pride for every Egyptian.

    They have been forever Egypt’s loyal sons who have pursued throughout the nation’s history the sublime message of work, exerting efforts to raise nation’s edifice, enhance Egypt’s ability to meet the needs of its citizens and spread out reconstruction and welfare everywhere in the country. In so doing, they were guided by the words of Allah in the Holy Qur’an, “And Say (unto them):Act: Allah will behold Your actions, and (so will) His Messenger and the believer”s.

    As Egypt’s workers had acted as a reserve for her awakening, they have acted throughout their history as a strong support to the nation’s dignity and welfare, safegurading her interests, stability, and protected her unity.

    Moreover, they have always considered themselves as a part of the national mainstream, integrating their own goals with those of the national mainstream and utilizing their organizations and trade unions as forces of stability and building that adhere to the country’s values, preserve its identity and protect its assets. Throughout a 100 years of the life of trade union organizations, our workers have protected the unity of the nation’s social fabric, repudiating class struggle and subversive ideologies.

    They refused to employ their trade union movement in the interest of foreign ideologies or non-nationalist goals.

    All over their march of struggle, they were committed to defend public interest in preference to their factional interests.

    Most characteristic of the Egyptian labour movement have been its close association with the goals of national struggle, its permanent willingness to give public national interest priority over its factional interests and its brave ability to meet difficult challenges and fulfill serious responsibilities under the severest and toughest conditions. Throughout all battles that our nation has fought over its contemporary history, Egypt’s workers have set a good example of commitment to duty, their sense of responsibility and sound awareness of their serious role and mission. They were a live embodiment of the national conscience and right index to the people’s steadfastness in time of test and distress.

    Egypt’s workers rose up to the level of duty and responsibility when they supported the July 1952 Revolution, defended its achievements, protected its back lines and backed its peaceful approach to social justice in a bid to safeguard the nation’s unity and social peace.

    They also rose up to the level of duty and responsibility when they were building, under ongoing air shelling missile bases for the 1973 war, working hand in hand with the Armed Forces for setting up defence fortifications on the front lines.

    So had they been while Egypt was fighting a fierce battle against terrorist factions in defense of the nation’s stability and its right to a safe progress that gurantees sustained development efforts for the good of Egyptian citizens.

    Furthermore, they were up to the level of duty and responsibility as they supported the economic reform programme out of a rational understanding of the significance, necessities and goals of reform.

   In particular, reform has become an inevitable necessity with the ultimate goal of expanding ownership base, investing all society’s capabilities and providing more job opportunities without prejudice to the workers’ rights.

    Greetings to Egypt’s loyal workers on their day in recognition of their great role in the reconstruction movement underway on the Egyptian soil as well as their struggle march that has always mounted purity of purpose.

    Greetings to Egypt’s workers who stand behind production lines in major industrial bastions and in all wide arenas of national action, dragging out life arteries in new lands; Toshka, Suez Gulf, East Port Said, Sinai and along the Red Sea coast , spreading urban and agricultural expansion in larger expanses of the national soil. Greetings to workers as they are building, with heroic exertion that is a source of pride for every Egyptian, ports, factories, lighthouses, schools, hospitals and power plants all over the country.

    Greetings to them, in the small and large workshops, as they manufacture thousands of Egyptian-made commodities that meet the greatest portion of the nation’s needs, thus making it more self-sufficient.

    Greetings to every sweating hand that toils, produces with perfection and excellence, performs work with a live conscience, as a holy fulfillment of duty, patriotism and commitment to the teachings of religion.

Brothers and Sisters,

    I do not want to overburden you with an often-repeated talk about the achievements made on the ground. Thanks to such achievements, Egypt’s infrastructure have been revitalized, centres of industrial and agricultural expansion created and a net of life arteries set up, represented in roads, means of transportation, seaports, airports, water and power stations which cover the greatest part of Egypt, extending from the narrow valley across the depth of the deserts through al-Owainat in the west, up to the furthest point on the Red Sea in the east and Toshka in the south.

    Nor do I want to overburden your attention with huge figures demonstrating the huge volume of expenditure which was invested by Egypt over the past twenty years to reshape living on its land.

    These achievements are still extant among us as a reality known by all and a true witness to the magnitude of the accomplished achievements. First and last these are the making of Egypt’s workers throughout the whole country.

    I need only to remind Egypt’s youth of the situation several years ago when the public treasury was empty, utilities worn out and development ceased. Everybody complained of the deteriorating, situation, poor services and shortage of commodities.

    By such reminder, I mean to stimulate our youth with hope and reassure them of the ability of our nation to overcome problems and that tomorrow will be better. This is not by way of dreaming or well-wishing, yet we are determined to continue our hard work and create all right circumstances that guarantee for Egypt sustainable development. This would realize a steady improvement in living standards, create new job opportunities to meet the needs of our youth.

    The first pre-requisite to achieve this end is to maintain the nation’s stability and social peace, enhance our potentials and abilities to meet challenges of the coming age, pursue the march of economic and political reform, in order to achieve our dual aim of sustainable development and deep democratization.

    Our sound experience of reform, as well as those of several other countries that have passed through similar circumstances, show that we are not to differentiate between reform necessities on economic and political tracks. Nor are we up to question which comes first in order to guarantee stability and progress. It has been our clear-cut approach and responsible commitment since the beginning to ensure synchronization of reform needs on both tracks.

    I do not think that we could have successfully proceeded with the economic reform process in the absence of the political reform steps of the Eighties. These reforms have reinitiated respect for the Law, freedom of the press, sanctity of judicature and the legitimate role of opposition, as a bastion of the other opinion and an essential part, failing which no democratic system can rise.

    We will pursue our reform steps on both tracks, complementing today’s work with that of tomorrow. Additionally, we will continue to build, on what has been already established, a firm-based bastion. Economic and political reform process is as ever-flowing and unceasing as life itself.

    As the People’s Assembly elections were, at all stages, conducted under judicial supervision, so will be the Shura (Consultative) Council’s. Thus, every citizen would be assured of the value of his vote and the importance of his participation in decision-making. This process will bring about sound parliamentary representation that reflects the nation’s pulse and interprets its hopes and ambitions. However, it is my duty to tell you frankly that the political reform will never bear fruit without sustained efforts by all legitimate parties, on top of which is the National Democratic Party, to interact with the masses.

    Thereby, parties can entrench their role in the community as political institutions capable of improving their own performance and of organizing popular initiatives into a conscious movement that ultimately contributes to the benefit of our motherland. They should, further, respect dividing lines between what is right and wrong, legitimate and illegitimate, thereby creating successive generations of young leaderships that can assure, in full honesty and integrity, the responsibility of national action, with devotion to Egypt and in service of public interest.

    I look forward to a near future where national action institutions, foremost of which are the political parties, develop their practice and thought depending on Egyptian youth. While we request the state and government institutions to push youth to leading positions and front lines based on their capabilities and talents in order to have successive generations of young leaderships who can shoulder future responsibilities, it is the duty of non-governmental organizations and parties as well to adopt this mission as an essential part of their functions and role. Ultimately, parties are the venues of education, where youth are brought up and trained in voluntary and partisan work in service of public interest.

Brothers and Sisters,

We have been facing many difficulties a

   nd challenges in a changing world that imposes strict criteria in order for us to be a part of human forward movement. This world requires to adopt all means of progress, to promote our capabilities and capacities on individual and group levels, to enhance capability of our governmental and non-governmental organizations to coordinate their efforts and develop their work within an institutional framework building on achievements already made.

    This institutional framework should be committed to realize objectives assigned thereto, depending on elaborate organization, and its ability to follow-up group performance, set right work and control its quality and perfection standards.

    Failing such institutional effort that rests more on elaborate organization, effectiveness and discipline than on the role of individual leader, it would be hard to maintain the rightful standing of our nation or to increase its share of world trade in a world where competition is severe over interests and markets. In a world where restrictions and boundaries between national and international markets are falling down, dominance will be acquired by those who wield the power to access markets with sophisticated products that can compete with counterparts in terms of both pricing and quality.

    Under these new changes, it is the duty of the Egyptian labour movement, with its dynamic ability to cope with innovations and its historical rejection of all forms of isolation and rigidity, to enhance its role and functions. Therefore, it is required to adopt as a top-priority interest, the mission of improving the level of its personnel and organizations through continuing training systems.

    Thus, they can more efficiently cope with current technology and more closely abide by quality standards in their global forms. This would make them more qualified to make use of information technology that has a growing role in the production process.

    In the past year, I asked trade-union organizations and the General Federation of Trade Unions, in cooperation with state institutions in education and scientific research and human development sectors and the Central Authority for Public Mobilization and Statistics to conduct a comprehensive survey of the society’s needs of special skills required for technical workers in all different fields that need advanced technology.

    Based on such comprehensive survey, we can develop and implement sustained programmes for training and qualifying Egyptian workers in these specialities in various regions of Egypt.

    This is a correct step on the right way, the outcome of which should be complemented by involving the private sector as a partner in this exercise, within an institutional framework that ensures the required integration of all efforts exerted in this respect. It should also guarantee that training will be an ongoing activity in factories and production establishments.This would help enhance the ability of our workers, experts and technicians to develop their performance, improve their productivity in such a way as to guarantee continuing upgrading of Egyptian production.

Brothers and Sisters,

    The first challenge of our time is to enhance capabilities and potentials of the Egyptian labour force. Another no less important and serious challenge is to successfully access world markets with outstanding and price-and-quality competitive Egyptian products. As time and again I have reiterated, export remains a matter of life and death that must be the focal preoccupation of the whole society especially those circles closely related to the production process.

    Thus, I am closely monitoring the steady improvement in the growth of our non-conventional exports to foreign markets.

    Although we have provided several facilities for the private sector to enable it to produce high-quality goods and services capable of competing in world markets, yet results are still modest, compared to the level of hopes pinned on this activity and compared to efforts of other countries that could successfully score significant successes in this respect in spite of the fact that we have similar human and physical capabilities.

    For Egypt, export is a vital issue as a means for remedying the gross disequilibrium in our balance of trade as the volume of our imports is threefold our exports, and providing productive job opportunities for our youth. Such opportunities would provide self-satisfaction for young people and yeild benefits to the society as a whole.

    Hence, I do call upon every Egyptian to encourage national products not only to support the community of producers that shoulder the responsibility of providing the greatest share of job opportunities required for Egypt’s youth, but also because our preference for our national products would be an important factor to enhance its quality in an open market where the consumers have the freedom of choice.

    Therefore, I have asked the government to procure its requirements exclusively from national production sources. Thus, the largest share of its public expenditure will go to the national sectors at home and consequently, this would generate larger restricting import to the narrowest possible limits.

    We do not demand that our domestic markets be exclusively restricted to national products but we rather call upon our citizens to be more sympathetic to Egyptian products.

    The government exerts its utmost to employ the greatest number of youth and workers. Meanwhile, the government seeks to qualify graduates for employment in non-governmental sectors. Training is provided for 300,000 graduates in specialized vocational training centres in 14 sectors, making available popular loans for craftsmen and the existing small enterprises so as to generate 100,000 new job opportunities. Furthermore, the government aims at increasing soft loan programmes for youth to start new enterprises to employ other 100,000 besides about 50,000 abroad. In addition, hopes are pinned on the private sector to provide the largest number of new job opportunities by expanding its handicraft and productive activity in addition to another number of job opportunities as a result of efforts by the government and businessmen to encourage small and medium enterprises. However heavy this burden is in the backdrop of relative slowdown in the national and global economy, I am confident of the ability of the Egyptian economy to meet these demands building on its success, over three preceding five-year plans, in providing 7 million job opportunities at a rate of about half a million opportunities per annum.

    Thus, I request the government for full transparency in the process of announcing available job opportunities and providing training opportunities for young cadres in specialized work fields. Training should be provided on the basis of clear-cut criteria ensuring equal opportunities for all without any favouritism or patronage while high-flyers should be given priority based on posted grounds.

Brothers and Sisters,

    Related to the challenges of the upcoming stage is our success in raising the private sector ability to the levels of the huge missions assigned to it, and deepening the confidence of society in its performance.

    We should not judge the private sector on account of the misdeeds of a mis-guided minority that have deviated from the right path or manipulated some loopholes in our banking system in order to obtain loans that they may not deserve.

    However, we should not judge all on account of the fault of a few persons or a minority who are being tried under the law. Indeed, developing the society is contingent on the presence of a powerful private sector that undertakes the largest share of development.

    This sector should play its role with a re-assurance and confidence that it stands on a solid ground, essentially based on the society’s trust in its performance. It is this sector that generates largest portion of the gross domestic product; assumes the responsibility of creating new job opportunities every year.

    It also undertakes the mission of promoting our exports in world markets and accessing new fields of national work including software and computer industries that depend on high-technology and require the effort of highly-trained, creative and innovative manpower. Moreover, this sector generates a value added of an influential weight, thereby adding up to the capacity of the national economy.

    In spite of its main and significant role, the private sector still lacks an institutional organization that allows it to realize high levels of quality and perfection. It still lacks regular and close relations with scientific research centres that allow it to enhance its performance and solve its production problems. It is also short of ample experience in foreign promotion and accessing foreign markets. No doubt that we exert great efforts so as to offer the private sector the opportunity of gaining presence in foreign markets through free-trade agreements with the Arab and African countries; as well as partnership agreements with Europe and the United States and through our foreign tours for this purpose, the latest being my visits to Germany, Romania and Russia over the few past days.

    From our point of view, the private sector does not mean that limited number of businessmen organized in groups bearing such name. Over and again, we have called for those semi-closed clubs and businessmen base to be expanded. However, the private sector means to us every economic activity, be it small, meduim or large, that is based on individual efforts and initiatives and adds up a new productive capacity to the nation?s existing ones.

    Based on this understanding, it is the duty of the state and government to provide full care to small and medium-size entrepreneurs, who exceed more than tens of thousands, in number. Therefore, they account for the largest part of the producers community providing for the market Egyptian made commodities that meet most of the needs of the society. Thus, they play a vital role in creating mass and giant industries through their products which constitute a significant and an indispensable component of mass industries.

    We exert our utmost to ensure equal distribution of development returns on all people, guarantee steady improvement in the incomes of all social categories and provide new job opportunities for more than 750,000,000 of young entrants to the labour market every year.

    However, high population growth devours the greatest portion of development returns, so this has made improvements in standard of living so slow and disproportionate with the huge efforts exerted in development projects.

    Indeed there has been a magnificent decline in population growth rate over the past ten years where the average of Egyptian household fell from 4.9 to 4.6 person, this sparing as a potential increase of 4 million new births. However, the current rate of growth, estimated at 2.1% per annum will result in an increase of 1.3 million people per annum. These new comers need food, housing, schools, universities, health services and employment; a colossal figure that will over burden the state and hinder development efforts.

    Unless every one starts to plan his own life and family in line with our public policy of curbing population growth, we can imagine how life can be overcrowded on every inch of Egypt?s land. Moreover, imagine how can Egypt manage this huge investments required to face such awesome population increase. Should such increase persist at this rate, it will bring Egypt?s population to 123 million in 2029.

    In the light of awareness by the Egyptian society of this huge problem and its future negative effects on standards of living, we are all committed to redouble our efforts to bring population growth to be around 1.8% as a maximum. This would ensure that development effort will be commensurate with the number of population and gurantee a measure of steady improvement in living standards.

Brothers and Sisters,

    The greatest challenge remains for us is to be able to maintain the nation?s security and stability which represents a strategic goal that should be maintained and defended. In the absence of stability, it will be difficult to sustain development efforts or dedicate national efforts to achieve a better life for all categories of the society.

    Thank God, Egypt?s workers, throughout their history, have been always a stabilizing and progressive force in the face of false advocates of extremism and empty slogan mongers. This still remains a significant and essential role in maintaining the nation?s stability that rests on the solidarity of internal forces and preserving the unity of the society and social peace.

    We should join forces so as to deprive those with wicked intents the chance to implement their schemes. Moreover, we should resist sectarian seditions that some factions deliberately seek to create as a result of a poor understanding of religion, in service of foreign schemes, or under the wrong illusion of making small gains. There is indeed no power that can disintegrate the bonds of national unity or place barriers between a Muslem and his Coptic brother in a nation that has history, held sacred its national unity; adhered to religious tolerance, rejected all forms of discrimination and fanaticism, with both its Copts and Muslems cooperating on good-doing and piety rather than on oppression and aggression.

    We should preserve the essence of philosophy on which the system of government has been based since July 1952 Revolution. Ever since, care of the underpriviledged was adopted as a part of the legitimacy and responsibility of governance. This was intended as a means of preserving the unity of society, social peace, and respecting the human right of Egyptian citizens to a decent life in his homeland. Regardless of any changes that may call for reconsidering many of our issues, we should maintain these essential constants.

    I will never desist from stating and reiterating on every occasion that the social dimension will remain a main pillar of government. We should foster it in every decision and legislation to be passed and every reform to be targeted, in order to ensure distribution of reform burdens over various categories of the society. We should keep intact workers? rights, as a sign of our alignment to the overwhelming majority of our people. This would realize social justice that will keep national fabric so solid that it defies dissension.

    In confirmation of our commitment to the social dimension, I am highly satisfied to see this year?s state budget, like all previous budgets over the past 20 years, allocate the greatest part of appropriation to basic services to the vast majority of the people in cities, villages and hamlets. These include appropriations for health, education and potable water services or subsidies covering significant shares of the cost of a number of basic materials and services, thereby making them available for all.

Brothers and Sisters,

Recently the Middle East region has witnessed a number of events that arouse deep concern threatening the security and stability of the region.These have been triggered by wrongful policies adopted by the new Israeli government based on the possibility of guaranteeing security by escalating military hostilities in the occupied Palestinian territories and along the border areas with Lebanon and Syria.

    This constitutes flagrant disregard of a real fact, i.e. that ensuring securityof Israel is exclusively contingent on the achievement of a just and comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian cause and complete Israeli withdrawal from Syria and Lebanon to the pre-June 4, 1967 borders. These should be carried out within the framework of honest and complete implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions, the land-for- peace formula, and all agreements and understandings which were already signed with the successive Israeli governments up to the present time.

    In a bid to alleviate the severe tension, Egypt-as you all know-soon offered a joint initiative with Jordan aiming at bringing both Israeli and Palestinian parties back to the negotiating table by making parallel progress in security, economic and political fields. This may alleviate feelings of frustration and bitterness resulting from the Israeli economic and military siege of the Palestinians. Moreover, it would re-open the door to negotiations to reach a final comprehensive settlement based on full and faithful implementation of prior agreements already made. This could be followed by serious pursuit of final status negotiations, in parallel with a number of practical measures to be undertaken on the ground by both parties, especially Israel aiming at appeasing and controlling violence.

    Yesterday, I received an Israeli reply, conveyed to me by Israeli Foreign Minister Peres, involving a number of comments on the content and methods of implementing the initiative. The reply also contained explanations of measures proposed to be taken by Israel with a view to alleviating conditions for the Palestinians in the occupied territories in a bid to create a favourable climate for ceasing violence and returning to negotiation.

    In the same vein, intensive contacts are currently underway with Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, U.S.A. and Israel to discuss these comments and agree on the appropriate method and timing to initiate specific steps geared to alleviate tension in the Palestinian occupied territories and dedicate efforts to fully implement agreements already signed and as early as possible enter into final-status negotiations.

    When the Israeli Foreign Minister came to me, he said they had agreed on certain measures to be taken effective yesterday. These included increasing the number of Palestinian workers to be allowed entry to Israel from 4000 to 15000, those to be allowed to stay overnight from 1000 to 5000, opening traffic on main roads, alleviating restrictions on Palestinian exports and imports, allowing Palestinians to travel from Gaza and the West Bank and building desalination, sanitary drainage and power stations at the expense of Israel in the services-de prived areas. Then they said they had a meeting with two Palestinians who I do not want to name. They almost reached an agreement in principle. Here, I would like to state part of what I said to the press yesterday.

    ?They reach a sort of agreement, but did not sign a document to halt acts of violence. Within four weeks from cessation of violence, Israel would withdraw all its forces. While the Palestinians demand four weeks, the Israelis demand eight.

Let us say this is a point of difference, but they agreed.

    I was later surprised when Abu Ammar (Arafat) phoned me saying that no agreement has been made. By the way, Abu Ala (Ahmad Qurai?) who they said was there in the meeting, is now present with us and says he was not involved. I was further surprised to hear the Israelis say ?wherefrom has President Mubarak brought all this ?.

    It all sounds very strange. How come they say this !. It was they that said it; I have not devised anything on my own. They pressed me to give a statement that they had reached a sort of agreement. At the beginning I was reluctant to make such statement. But I thought it would relieve public opinion here or there. What I said is a sort of agreement.

    Then they went to Jordan and apparently for fear of being asked about the agreement, they cancelled the press conference. Back in Israel, they wondered wherefrom President Mubarak brought all this. It is they that said it as shown by the ministers of meeting that reads, ?a meeting was held with so and so who told him they were authorized by Chairman Arafat. Both sides discussed a plan, agreed by the Israeli side, to be kept confidential.

    I do not want to make public the main components of the plan, as long as it is confidential. Probably, they may adopt the plan, and consequently the situation may calm down and continued fighting and blood shed may be stopped. How come you say this; do you think I was making a guess?.

    It is you that said something to this effect on the television and it is all recorded. Later the Israeli radio came up with a statement that President Mubarak was mistaken, because no agreement has been signed. I never said anyone signed an agreement. What I said that they had agreed in principle. Neither he nor I have said any agreement had been signed.

    He said there was a sort of agreement, but there were points of disagreement. However, there was an understanding of the principle of halting violence so as to start negotiations. Anyhow, we have been accustomed to such wedge-driving practices. Concomitantly, Israel has to refrain from any such acts as may ignite the situation on the Syrian and Lebanese fronts. Specifically, Israel has to desist from launching military attacks that severely aggravate the situation and has, in lieu, to proceed with negotiations aiming at implementing full withdrawal from Syria and Lebanon to the pre-June 4,1967 borders.

    Our region is facing savage and ferocious challenges that can not be overcome except by means of reason, wisdom and commitment to right and principle for just and comprehensive peace based on the solid grounds of international legitimacy is the only means of realizing security and stability in the middle East region.

    I hope that the coming days will bring with them a new Israeli orientation towards appeasing the situation and a dedication to negotiations aiming at reaching a comprehensive settlement.

Brothers and Sisters:

Our only choice is to pursue our march of hard work, redouble our efforts in such a timely manner as to keep pace with the on-going progress. We should further bridge the gap that separates us from other countries that outpaced us on the road of progress before such gap would grow wider. Towards this end, we are supported by strong faith, firm determination, iron will and full confidence of our ability to attain this right goal.

    Our only choice is to meet challenges of the coming era by enhancing our performance on all levels, adopting scientific methods, absorbing state-of-the-art technology and opening all doors to integrate into our advanced world. We have to learn from others? experiences without neglecting our values and national idiosyncracies, exchanging benefits with others without fear or complexes.

    Our only choice is to set as a top priority to reinforce the state of institutions in order to help create strong governmental and non-governmental organizations in Egypt. Building on their own capabilities, structures and mechanisms, such organizations can pursue their work on sound grounds within the framework of a clear vision.

    Our only choice is to push our youth forward to assume responsibility and share in making the future of their country. We should give priority to talented, experienced and skillful people and good-performers who have their initiatives, clear vision and creative and innovative capabilities.

    These are the real wealth of the nation and the makers of its glory in an era characterized by unceasing perfectionism, development, severe competition and unlimited creativity.

    No other choice but to pursue a proper intermarriage between both economic and political reforms.

    We should have no fear of difference of viewpoints or dissimilarity of approaches, as this difference helps unveil truth, provides deep insight and lights our path without creating hard feelings.

    We have no other choice but to strongly defend the security and stability of our homeland, fully confident of our ability to impose just and comprehensive peace regardless of any attempts by some parties to entrench themselves behind hackneyed ideas, under the presumption that force might realize security at the expense of others? rights. Those will be swept away by the movement of history because history never turns backward. Nor does it squander peoples? struggle or triumph for old-fashioned racist ideas that run contrary to the future.

Brothers and Sisters

Along the course of our revival, the beginnings were so difficult, the road so thorny, the legacy so huge and heavy, the capabilities so modest and the mission almost impossible. Yet, we bravely took up the mission and message backed by God?s Support and a great people to whom nothing is impossible. This people had patiently borne difficulties and offered huge sacrifices. Starting from zero point, they pursue their march towards the future overstepping the battles and grudges of the past as well as shortcomings of previous experiences. Learning the lesson, they decided to forge out a strong present through their incessant struggle.

    This great people managed to free their will from the captivity of antiquated ideas, break many shackles that fettered their march. They learned how to overcome difficulties, fully confident of their ability until they could clearly find out their way to the threshold of a new era full of hope and optimism.

    I pray to God Almighty to enlighten our insight with faith, firmly keep our feet on the right path away from any pitfalls on the road. He is the Best Supporter and Sustainer May Allah's Mercy Be Upon you.